Tennessee · Nonprofit
RAISING A VOICE
RAISING A VOICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,931 to it, the largest being LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $312k
- Net assets
- $542k
What Raising a Voice does
Mission
Raising a Voice is an organization addressing the issues of human trafficking exploitation prostitution and vulnerability. The organization provides basic services to women susceptible or involved in these type of issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our womens center provides basic services such as hot meals laundry services showers hygiene products and a safe place off the street and out of harms way. For many women served this is their only safe place allowing them an opportunity to stabilize and move forward from their vulnerability and exploitation. In 2024 we served over 450 unique women exceeding 1,800 annual visits.
$292,266 spentof which $20,450 as grants74% of program spendingOur case management services are provided on a case by case basis for each women starting with an assessment of her needs. Through other community partnerships and referrals we provide legal and medical assistance placement into rehabilitation services guidance through housing and employment applications and other needs per individual. The individual case management approach provides a holistic care for each woman.
$80,271 spentof which $29,450 as grants20% of program spendingOur basic first aid services provide an initial stop to helping women move forward in addressing ongoing health concerns aimed at ultimately providing a healthier and better quality of life. Initial services include basic wound care non-laboratory based testing and over the counter medication. For medical needs that quickly exceed our limited capabilities we work with community partners through referrals to address larger health needs such as womens health infectious disease emergency health needs and much more.
$22,458 spent6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $394,995.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $386k to $690k (+79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of RAISING A VOICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13 → $35k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RAISING A VOICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RAISING A VOICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RAISING A VOICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of RAISING A VOICE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of RAISING A VOICE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
RAISING A VOICE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RAISING A VOICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAISING A VOICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAISING A VOICE?
- RAISING A VOICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,931 to it, the largest being LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAISING A VOICE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $311,931 in grants to RAISING A VOICE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAISING A VOICE?
- LAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAISING A VOICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing